Passiflora tripartita Seeds

Passiflora tripartita Seeds

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Passiflora tripartita also called curuba, tumbo, curuba de Castilla and tumbo serrano is a species of Passiflora from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil in areas at elevations of 2000 – 3200 meters.

Vine with round, fluted, hairy stems up to 6 m long. With angled branches and trilobed leaves, serrated, dark green, with yellow hairs on the upper side. Pink flower with a tube 4 to 10 cm long and a bell-shaped cup.

Oblong fruits with soft pericarp, yellow when ripe, 6 to 15 cm long by 3.5 to 5 cm in diameter, and weighing between 100 and 180 g. Multiple domed seeds with orange aril, succulent and edible, are used to make juices and ice creams.

The banana passionfruit is native to the Andean valleys from Venezuela to Bolivia. It was domesticated and cultivated since pre-Columbian times by various cultures of western South America. Today, it is commonly cultivated and its fruit is regularly sold in local markets.

The vine is grown in California as an ornamental under the name "soft leaf passionflower". It is grown to some extent in Hawaii, Madeira, and the State of Tamil Nadu, India. The fruit is yellow-orange when ripe and contains a sweet edible orange-colored pulp with black seeds.

P. tripartita var. mollissima and P. tarminiana were until recently considered to be one species, P. mollissima.

Synonyms
Passiflora psilantha (Sodiro) Killip
Passiflora tripartita var. tripartite
Tacsonia psilantha Sodiro
Tacsonia tripartita Juss.